26:790:538 Global Environmental Issues

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1 26:790:538 Global Environmental Issues Professor: Gabriela Kütting Office: Hill Hall Tuesdays pm Office Hours: Tuesdays/Thursdays or by arrangement Focus: This is a graduate course focused on the global environmental "problematique" and the ways in which it is being played out in a variety of political and policy arenas. Apart from introducing the student to the concepts and literature in global environmental politics, the course is intended to provide students with insights into: The political structure and context of transnational environmental issues; The ways in which individuals are implicated in these issues; The intergovernmental mechanisms established for addressing environmental problems The treatment of environmental problems that occur in many different places but are not necessarily linked Transnational environmental activity, including that through social movements, non-governmental organizations, and corporate actors; We will approach these matters through a focus on four general aspects of the environmental problematique: Environmental governance Civil society and transnational actors Critical debates on justice, development and economic issues Environmental security Assignments: In addition to attendance and active participation in class exercises (20% of grade: 10 % on the presentation, 10% active engagement with subject matter in the classroom), students must read the assigned texts and articles. There are several written requirements: Mid-term paper (40%): due March 10, 2014 (via Blackboard) Final paper (40%): There will be a final paper covering the second half of the course. Fair warning: I reschedule exams and extend deadlines only if you provide documentation of extenuating circumstances and if you notify me in advance. I will prosecute to the fullest any breach of the University s integrity policy or any act of plagiarism by reporting it to the appropriate authority. Plagiarism is defined by the university as the deliberate use and appropriation of another s work without any indication of the source and the passing off of such work as the student s own. Any

2 student who fails to give credit for ideas or materials taken from another is guilty of plagiarism. There will be no textbook and we will rely on journal articles and Blackboard uploads in the interest of your finances and to expose you to a variety of views and concepts. Classes Meeting one: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 Introductory meeting: discussion of course aims and content, assignment of presentation activities, essay titles etc. Meeting two: January 27, 2014 Environmental literature in global context from the origins of social environmental thought to the history of global environmental politics Dimitris Stevis (2005), The trajectory of the study of international environmental politics (on Blackboard) Lipschutz,R (2005), Global environmental politics power, perspectives, practice, chapter 1, CQ Press (on Blackboard). Jennifer Clapp & Peter Dauvergne (2005), Paths to a green world, chapter 1, MIT Press, (on Blackboard) Donatella Meadows et al, Limits to Growth Meeting three: February, 4, 2014 IR and the environment international law and politics John Vogler, International Relations and the environment in: G Kütting (ed), Global Environmental Politics concepts, theories and case studies, Routledge, 2010 (on Blackboard), Oran Young, Inferences and indices, evaluating the effectiveness of international environmental agreements, Global Environmental Politics, 2001, 1, 1, pp Ron Mitchell, chapter 5 (on Blackboard) The Climate Change regime

3 Meeting four: February 11, 2014 Environmental governance and regimes part 2 Biermann, Frank, and Philipp Pattberg Global environmental governance. Taking stock, moving forward. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 33, P. Haas, Do regimes matter?, International Organization, 43 (3), 1989, pp , J. Wettestad, The effectiveness of environmental policies (in Betsill et al) The biodiversity regime Meeting five: February 18, 2014 Environmental institutions and governance critical perspectives M. Paterson, Radicalizing regimes? Ecology and the critique of IR theory in: Boundaries in question J. Macmillan & A. Linklater eds), Pinter Publishers, 1995 (on Blackboard). R. Lipschutz, Global environmental politics power, perspectives, practice, chapter 5, CQ Press (on Blackboard). Gabriela Kütting, 2001: "Back to the future: Time, IR and the environment", Global Society, Vol. 15 (4), (on Blackboard). David Humphreys, Logjam Meeting six: February 25, 2014 Environmental governance the role and rise of global social movements and global civil society Lucy Ford, Challenging Environmental Governance: social movement agency and global civil society, Global Environmental Politics, 3:2, May Paul Wapner, Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics, World Politics, 47:3, Matthew Paterson, Globalization, ecology and resistance, New Political Economy, 4,1, Keck & Sikkink, Activists beyond borders

4 Meeting seven: March 4, 2014 Mid-term paper no class Meeting eight: March 11, 2014 Environmental governance- economy versus environment Jennifer Clapp, International Political Economy and the environment (on Blackboard) Katherine Goodwin, Reconstructing automobility, Global Environmental Politics, 2010, 10, 4. Kate O Neill, 2009, The environment and international relations, chapter 7, Cambridge University Press (on Blackboard) Peter Newell, Climate capitalism Spring Break Meeting nine: March 25, 2014 Consumption Maniates,M (2001): Individualization: plant a tree, buy a bike, save the world. Global Environmental Politics 1(3), Doris Fuchs & Frederike Boll, Sustainable consumption, in: G Kütting (ed), Global Environmental Politics concepts, theories and case studies, Routledge, 2010 (on Blackboard), Gabriela Kütting, 2013: Modern lifestyle: consumption and materialism, in Paul Harris (ed), Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Routledge (on Blackboard). Tim Jackson, Prosperity without growth Meeting ten: April 1, 2014 Development Pratap Chatterjee & Matthias Finger, The Earth Brokers (on Blackboard) Pamela Martin, Global governance from the Amazon, Global Environmental Politics, 11,4, 2011.

5 Vandana Shiva: : The Neem tree study Meeting eleven, April 8, 2014 Environmental security Val Percival & Thomas Homer Dixon, Environmental Degradation as a Source of Conflict: The Case of South Africa, in: P. Diehl & P. Gleditsch eds., Environmental conflict (2001), on Blackboard. Nils Petter Gleditsch, Environmental Conflict: A Future Research Agenda, in: P. Diehl & P. Gleditsch eds., Environmental conflict (2001), on Blackboard. Geoff Dabelko, Avoid hyperbole, Bulletin of Atomic Scienstists: Research one of the case studies of Homer Dixon Meeting twelve, April 15, 2014 Ecological security Simon Dalby, Ecological politics, violence and the theme of empire, Global Environmental Politics, 4:2, Nancy Peluso & Michael Watts (2001) (eds), Violent environments, Cornell University Press, New York, chapters 1+2 (on Blackboard) Shane Mulligan, Energy, environment and security, Global Environmental Politics, 2010, 10, 4. Any case study chapter from Peluso & Watts Meeting thirteen, April 22, 2014 Ecological justice Bradley Parks & J. Timmons Roberts, Environment and ecological justice (Blackboard) David Schlosberg & David Carruthers, Indigenous struggles, environmental justice and community capabilities, Global Environmental Politics, 2010, 10, 4.

6 Ehresman, Timothy and Dimitris Stevis (2011). International Environmental and Ecological Justice, in Gabriela Kütting ed. Global Environmental Politics: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies. Abingdon: Routledge (on Blackboard) R. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie Meeting fourteen, April 29, 2014 Discussion of your final paper one on one meetings